It is not easy to figure out which New York City public schools offer Mandarin immersion, as it’s a big district with a lot of schools and a lot going on. Also, the district lists programs as dual-language immersion which are primarily aimed at students who come into the district speaking Mandarin and who are…

Every year the Asia Society holds its annual National Chinese Language Conference. It’s the go-to conference for Chinese teaching and has become a hotspot of Mandarin immersion information. I’ve only gotten to attend one but I learned a ton and for anyone in the field it’s truly not to be missed. This year it’s in…

Please find below a lovely essay on Chinese New Year by Jeff Bissell, the head of the Chinese American International School in San Francisco, the country’s oldest Mandarin immersion program. If you have thoughts on Chinese New Year, your school or Mandarin Immersion in general, please send them along. I am eager to run guest…

Mandarin Chinese language immersion school now enrolling for fall 2018 in Charleston area By Paul Bowers pbowers@postandcourier.com Feb 8, 2018 At East Point Academy in West Columbia, students raise their hands to answer a question. A similar public charter school, East Light Academy, is set to open in Berkeley County in the fall of 2018…

Whittle launched Avenues: The World School in New York a few years ago. It’s billed as having two programs, one Mandarin immersion and one Spanish immersion. I can’t speak to the Spanish immersion side, but I’ve heard from some parents that it’s debatable whether the Mandarin immersion side is, in fact, immersion. The website says…

Will magnet schools survive the HISD budget crisis? Bernardo Pohl February 7, 2018 Photo: Brett Coomer, Houston Chronicle Magnets, like the Mandarin Chinese Language Immersion Magnet School, have been the pride and joy of HISD for many decades. In the spring of 2011, the Dallas Independent School District (DISD) and the city’s residents found themselves…

This comes for the blog of Virginia Duan, a Taiwanese American blogger who writes on identity, homeschooling, Chinese/English bilingual education and raising multi-ethnic kids among other topics. Duan speaks Mandarin and is teaching it to her kids, so she faces a different set of challenges and opportunities than non-Chinese speaking parents hoping to have their kids learn…